Comments on: 20 Ways Obama and Democrats Have Betrayed the Worldhttp://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/12/07/20-ways-obama-and-democrats-have-betrayed-the-world/
ANTI-IMPERIALIST TOOL ~ Vol. XIVWed, 21 Feb 2018 21:46:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4By: D.H. Fabianhttp://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/12/07/20-ways-obama-and-democrats-have-betrayed-the-world/#comment-55159
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 19:00:55 +0000http://www.greanvillepost.com/?p=203191#comment-55159It’s not about Obama at all. The drift to the right began with Reagan, a very well-marketed personality in the 1980s. Conservative became “cool,” and loyal service to the corporate state became something of a religion. Reagan was portrayed as young and vigorous, yet at the same time, as a papa who would protect us from the shadowy figures that lurked beyond the shining light on the hill (us — the chosen ones). Many did not agree, of course, but they were brushed aside as irrelevant.

One notable product of the era was the Reagan Democrats, and in the 1990s, they moved further to the right to merge with the Clinton wing. Class-based fascism gas been promoted, decorated with “progressive” stickers. The new media (cable TV and Internet) marketed right wing ideology to the beat of a rock and roll song. This potential tool for movement-building (and indeed, it still can be) effectively served to build an era of political confusion. Liberal media sells marketing the vision of the visor-capped, muscled-armed American worker while disappearing the consequences of our deeply destructive capitalism (our poverty crisis).

Obama presented extraordinary potential that we threw away. He stressed that “hope and change” would be possible only if people came together for the common good, standing up and DEMANDING Congress to represent us. We didn’t. We were more deeply divided by class and race. Voting choices ultimately come down to economic issues. Obama was to the left of liberals on core socioeconomic policies. He actually was able to restore the disability benefits that the Clinton administration had slashed — an issue that was of no interest to liberals. Obama was open to legitimately progressive change, and liberals were not. Those years can be summed up as a feel-good pep rally for the middle class. Liberal media effectively alienated the masses as they redefined poor and low-income white people as a collection of ignorant, right-wing yahoos.

This was topped off by liberal media going all-out to sell Hillary Clinton, with her long record of support for the hard right agenda, as a “bold progressive.” That was the point at which our liberal elite fell off the cliff. Since Trump took over, they only maintained their anti-Russian and anti-Israel distractions, avoiding the critical issues that so profoundly split apart those who are not to the right of center. And that’as where we stand today.